Improvement in thermal conductivity of paraffin by adding high aspect-ratio carbon-based nano-fillers

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 377, Issue 19-20, 2013, Pages 1358-1361

  Babaei, Hasan ^a   Keblinski, Pawel ^b   Khodadadi, J M ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Graphene; Molecular alignment; Molecular dynamics simulation; Paraffins; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ASPECT RATIO; CARBON NANOTUBES; GRAPHENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PARAFFINS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CARBON-BASED; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; MATRIX MOLECULES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO ADDITIVES; NANO-FILLERS; SOLID MIXTURES; SOLID-PHASE;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

EID: 84876410143     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2013.03.040     Document Type: Article

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